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Victoria Beckham has made it pretty clear she doesn’t want to be part of the much-discussed Spice Girls 20th anniversary reunion.

And it seems the popstar turned designer ‘always felt uncomfortable’ in the girlband, according to their former manager anyway.

Simon Fuller, who signed the girls back in 1995, says Victoria’s true passion was always fashion and she’s much happier now she’s left music behind.

He was the Spice Girls’ manager during the peak of their success (Picture: Rex)

‘She [Victoria] never felt comfortable,’ he said at the Business Innovation Awards in Los Angeles.

‘Even in the Spice Girls – it was great fun, she was in the world’s biggest group for two or three years – but she didn’t feel comfortable.

‘She could sing pretty well, she could dance pretty well, but she always felt uncomfortable.’

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The entrepreneur with Mel B and Emma Bunton back in the nineties (Picture: REXMAILPIX)Victoria, now 42, launched a solo career and released a self-titled album after she parted ways with Mel B and C along With Emma Bunton in 2000, two years after Geri Halliwell quit the band.

But apparently it was Simon who convinced the mother-of-four to go to become a designer.

‘When the Spice Girls broke up, she had a few songs as a solo artist but she wasn’t happy and she said to me ”Simon, I just don’t want to do music anymore. What do you think I should do?”

Victoria isn’t keen on reuniting with her former band mates (Picture: Rex Features)

‘When the Spice Girls broke up, she had a few songs as a solo artist but she wasn’t happy and she said to me ”Simon, I just don’t want to do music anymore. What do you think I should do?”

‘It was one of those things that you get this kind of clarity of vision. I’ve known Victoria since she was 18 and her passion in life was always clothes.

‘She was called Posh Spice because she always wore the best dresses and she knew everything about clothes.

Simon’s company still manage Victoria and husband David (Picture: Getty Images for AEG)

‘I said ”You should be in fashion. You should be a designer”.’

Simon was sacked by the Spice Girls in 1997, but he maintained a good relationship with Victoria, who launched her fashion label in 2008, and has managed her and husband David for years.

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He’s been hugely successful over the years and famously created the Idol franchise, which began with Pop Idol in the UK back in 2001.